My thanks to Val for writing this week's Greeting.

As of this writing I am still in Gay Days recovery mode, but I have no intention of missing JANINE KLEIN: GAY BAR STAR on Saturday at the PH with the new twisted addition of Doug Ba-Aser stepping in for John Ryan. 

I am also pleased to announce the confirmed dates for the Parliament House revival of another recent Fringe hit - HELL FREEZES OVER.

HELL will give three performances in the Footlight Theatre:

Saturdays, July 17 & 24 at 8 PM, and a SPECIAL INDUSTRY NIGHT PERFORMANCE, Monday, July 26 at 8 PM.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, June 18, so mark your calendars for that, and for the fabulous show at the PH on the 19th with Miss Jacqueline Jones. I hope you'll join me at both Gay Bar Star and Miss Jones' very special concert event. I'll be in attendance at both.

Just to quickly bring you up to date on some new projects:

I will be directing an outrageous comedy entitled FUDDY MEERS at the PH, opening in August. The formal audition notice will go out soon, but if you would like to plan ahead, the audition will be held on Monday evening, June 21. Complete details will be in next week's WANZeGRAM. Joe Swanberg and Monique Byrnes have been pre-cast, but four very choice roles will be filled through the open call audition. Still needed are 2 males, one who can pass for 17, and a fatherly man in his late thirties/early forties; also a woman in her late thirties/early forties, and another old enough to be her mother.

I will also be conducting a series of three Ballroom Dance Crash Courses beginning this summer. The first mini 5-week beginners' course will be offered one night a week, in one-hour group sessions, and will feature instruction in Rumba, Fox Trot, and Waltz. The second 5 week course in the series will offer instruction in Cha-Cha, Swing, Mambo, and Disco Hustle. The final course will offer instruction in Samba and Tango. Details including dates, times, and registration information will be in next week's Gram. Interested persons need not have a partner to participate. Same gender couples are welcome. If you think you may be interested in taking a Ballroom Dance Course with moi but have limited availability, kindly email me with your preference for which early evening of the week might works best for you. I'll choose the night that seems to suit the most people. I am available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. I cannot teach on Wednesdays, Saturdays, or Sundays. Drop me a line if you're interested and have a preference concerning the night the class might meet.

Now on to a totally unrelated subject: remember how following the inauguration of President Barack Obama you couldn't go ten minutes without seeing or hearing Dick Cheney constantly and obnoxiously berating the current administration over anything and everything? The displaced former Vice President had something to say about everything. He never went away!  Not a Sunday passed that he wasn't on at least one of the talking heads political TV shows. Then the BP oil rig (in which Halliburton was heavily involved) exploded, and poof - like magic  - suddenly no more Cheney. His sudden and transparent complete and total absence from the airwaves speaks volumes more than anything this hateful hack of a war mongering VP ever said before he disappeared. I think there is much to be learned about this horrible man-made calamity taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.  I think we will find out that much of the cause of the spill is owing to relaxed or rescinded rules that once regulated off-shore drilling before the Bush/Cheney regime did away with much of the oversight and safety regulations to which their buddies-in-Oil had to adhere before the chief idiot and the despot VP took office. I also think we will find out that Halliburton played a significant role in accommodating the spill. I'd ask Dick myself about this, but I can't seem to find him anywhere.